Xyloctonus punctipennis Eggers, 1939

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, Integrated taxonomy, biology and biogeography of the Afrotropical genus Xyloctonus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1), pp. 67-84 : 67

Xyloctonus punctipennis Eggers, 1939

Figs 17 , 20 , 23

Xyloctonus punctipennis Eggers, 1939: 16.

Type material.

Holotype: Somalia, Basso Ganana [-0.6, 41.7], VII-VIII-93, V. Bottago [USNM].

Diagnosis.

Length 1.8-2.4 mm, 2.0-2.1 × as long as wide, colour brown, shiny; antennal club with two visible procurved sutures; frons with scant fine setae; anterior margin of pronotum with two raised teeth; elytral interstriae 1-3 continue to posterior elytral margin, interstriae 4-8 terminate in the transversely curved interstriae 9 that merge with the apical margin at level of interstriae 3; scutellar shield smooth, weakly impressed in middle; elytral suture with bulgy locking mechanism near scutellar shield.

Distribution.

Somalia.

Figures

Figures 16 - 24. Dorsal, lateral and front view of holotype of X. opacus (16, 19, 22); paratype of X. punctipennis (17, 20, 23); X. biseriatus (18, 21, 24).